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Speculative Fiction/Alternate Histories

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Thursday, November 2, 2017

illustration: Sophy Hollington

What if magic had never died out in Victorian England? What if the Underground Railroad had actually been a subterranean set of tracks and tunnels? In this class we will focus on that subset of speculative fiction known as "Alternate Histories" to ask questions about the nature of story-telling more broadly, what cultural events come to define history as we know it, and about those artworks that expand our sense of the possible. Texts and authors will include: Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, Kazuo Ishiguro, Larissa Lai, Nisi Shawl, and Philip K. Dick.

English 315 Speculative Fiction (schedule number: 61164)

Instructor: Professor Jordy Rosenberg

Tuesday/Thursday 2:30-3:45 in W201 South College

Spring 2018

Jordy Rosenberg is an Associate Professor of Literature and the author of Confessions of the Fox (Random House, 2018), as well as Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformstion of Religious Passion (Oxford University Press, 2011), and co-editor (with Chi-ming Yang) of "The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century," (2014), and (with Amy Villarejo) of "Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism" (2011).